If the plan was to knock Fresno State quarterback Zack Greenlee around, hit him often and enough to get him frazzled into mistake after mistake, it certainly wouldn’t have been an outlandish idea.
But one way or the other, the five roughing-the-passer penalties and one personal foul that Hawaii absorbed Saturday against the Bulldogs definitely had a role in an epic turnaround by the third-year sophomore quarterback, who threw six touchdowns in a 42-14 victory.
Greenlee admitted as much Monday, as the Bulldogs started preparation for a nonconference game at BYU. It ticked off him, and his teammates, a bit.